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Leo felt sick. He had tried to make art , and the algorithm—and his own audience—had rejected it. He slumped back into his chair and opened a new GoAnimate project. He dragged a school desk onto a white void. He typed in text-to-speech: "You did not do the homework. GROUNDED." His world was "Gotube"—a corner of YouTube where